A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save data. The SSDs remain relatively new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content that is accessed more often will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be located on regular HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new emails using webmail, the content will load very quickly. In order to offer even higher speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. Any content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve in this way aside from the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus decreased potential for hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load extremely fast since we use SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and emails. As some people may host Internet sites that could be more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system discovers any content that is accessed more often and copies it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the potential for disk failures.